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I recently received this little bit of intellectual drivel on a blog post. I posted a little blurb about Darwin and his struggle with Christianity and the mounting evidence of natural selection. I…Continue

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"Hi Maxwell! Did you get into UOP? I looked at the site and it read a couple of stories on it and I can't wait to see how this plays out. As someone who learns on the internet all the time I can really appreciate what this means to folks who…"

I just signed up for a competition and art exhibit. It's called Art Takes Time Square. I post some art I created about the Christian mythos and the inherent evil therein. If you are into art and feel so inclined please swing by and sign up and click on collect to help me win the competition. The payoff is that art pointing out the evil of Christianity will be displayed on giant monitors in Times Square. Thanks for your support!…See More

Please consider this. Holy books are garbage that do nothing but harm. Why not round up as many as you can on Earth day and take them to a recycling facility near you? That way you could take something that has cause immeasurable harm, and turn it into something actually useful! Just an idea!

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I just signed up for a competition and art exhibit. It's called Art Takes Time Square. I post some art I created about the Christian mythos and the inherent evil therein. If you are into art and feel so inclined please swing by and sign up and click on collect to help me win the competition. The payoff is that art pointing out the evil of Christianity will be displayed on giant monitors in Times Square. Thanks for your support!…

Please consider this. Holy books are garbage that do nothing but harm. Why not round up as many as you can on Earth day and take them to a recycling facility near you? That way you could take something that has cause immeasurable harm, and turn it into something actually useful! Just an idea!

This was originally written in response to a dialog I was having with a fellow blogger on a political site. I have fashioned my self as the resident anti-theist and we were discussing the religious origins of traditions. The other person was Jewish. I think that tradition often falls into the trap of dogma but if we are careful, we can fashion new traditions to promote discovery and learning.

I actually see the beauty and meaning in many of the traditions of many religions. They were… Continue

In most parts of our lives we would not seek out and employ delusional people to do tasks for us. If we were told that our doctors believed that magic mushroom people were able to heal us and that this belief was intrinsic to their world view, I think most of us would seek a new doctor. If we were told that the person educating our children would go into a closet and talk to the magical bunny of education for guidance and how to impart knowledge to our children we would be hesitant to let that… Continue